Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a widely used reliability analysis and risk assessment tool in various industries. It is one of the most established project management techniques to identify and eliminate failures before actual manufacturing starts. In traditional FMEA, Risk Priority Number (RPN) ranking system is used to evaluate; the risk level of failures, to rank failures, and to...

Abstract Today, the ability to maintain a continuous complex system operation is viewed as key attribute for ensuring uninterrupted revenue contribution and survival of business. Many industrial organisations have come understand that by having an effective plan maintenance, efficiency reliability can be improved, while costs minimised revenue-generating production continue. The novelty this pa...

The general objective of this work is to evaluate the application impact of the RCM (Reliability-Centered Maintenance) methodology on a power generating system. The RCM warrants significant improvements in the maintenance-functions performance, and also an increase in reliability and availability of equipments. It permits the definition of a maintenance planning in a structured form. It was dev...

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a widely used quality improvement and risk assessment tool in manufacturing. Design and process failures recorded through FMEA provides valuable knowledge for future product and process design. However, the way the knowledge is captured poses considerable difficulties for reuse. This research aims to contribute to the reuse of FMEA knowledge through a ...

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-driven approach in processing new product developments in order to maximize customer satisfaction. Determining the fulfillment levels of design requirements (DRs) and parts characteristics (PCs) is an important decision problem during QFD activity processes for new product development. Unlike the existing literature, which mainly focuses on the de...

This paper describes how the effects of possible component failures on an electrical system can be predicted through simulation of the correct behavior of the system, and repeated simulation of versions of the system containing faulty components. The results of such simulation are useful both for failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and for diagnosis. Such results have been used commercial...

Increasingly complex systems lead to an interweaving of security, safety, availability and reliability concerns. Most dependability analysis techniques do not include security aspects. In order to include security, a holistic risk model for systems is needed. In our novel approach, the basic failure cause, failure mode and failure effect model known from FMEA is used as a template for a vulnera...

For proper management of life cycle of machines and manufacturing facilities, it is important to perform appropriate maintenance operations, and to keep machine status for better reuse and recycling opportunity. For this purpose, a virtual maintenance system is very effective, where facility life cycle model is constructed in computer, and reliability and availability of machines are predicted ...